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most citedFirst Results from HERA Phase I: Upper Limits on the Epoch of Reionization 21 cm Power Spectrum

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40 papers

astro-ph.CO2025

The Simons Observatory: forecasted constraints on primordial gravitational waves with the expanded array of Small Aperture Telescopes

The Simons Observatory Collaboration, I. Abril-Cabezas, S. Adachi +479

We present updated forecasts for the scientific performance of the degree-scale (0.5 deg FWHM at 93 GHz), deep-field survey to be conducted by the Simons Observatory (SO). By 2027,…

cs.NE2025

CMA-ES with Radial Basis Function Surrogate for Black-Box Optimization

Farshid Farhadi Khouzani, Abdolreza Mirzaei, Paul La Plante +1

Evolutionary optimization algorithms often face defects and limitations that complicate the evolution processes or even prevent them from reaching the global optimum. A notable con…

astro-ph.CO2024

Impacts and Statistical Mitigation of Missing Data on the 21cm Power Spectrum: A Case Study with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

Kai-Feng Chen, Michael J. Wilensky, Adrian Liu +66

The precise characterization and mitigation of systematic effects is one of the biggest roadblocks impeding the detection of the fluctuations of cosmological 21cm signals. Missing…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

Mitigating calibration errors from mutual coupling with time-domain filtering of 21 cm cosmological radio observations

N. Charles, N. S. Kern, R. Pascua +80

The 21 cm transition from neutral Hydrogen promises to be the best observational probe of the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR). This has led to the construction of low-frequency radio i…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 4 cited

Investigating Mutual Coupling in the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array and Mitigating its Effects on the 21-cm Power Spectrum

E. Rath, R. Pascua, A. T. Josaitis +78

Interferometric experiments designed to detect the highly redshifted 21-cm signal from neutral hydrogen are producing increasingly stringent constraints on the 21-cm power spectrum…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

A demonstration of the effect of fringe-rate filtering in the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array delay power spectrum pipeline

Hugh Garsden, Philip Bull, Mike Wilensky +94

Radio interferometers targeting the 21cm brightness temperature fluctuations at high redshift are subject to systematic effects that operate over a range of different timescales. T…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 33 cited

Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) Phase II Deployment and Commissioning

Lindsay M. Berkhout, Daniel C. Jacobs, Zuhra Abdurashidova +93

This paper presents the design and deployment of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) phase II system. HERA is designed as a staged experiment targeting 21 cm emission m…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

matvis: A matrix-based visibility simulator for fast forward modelling of many-element 21 cm arrays

Piyanat Kittiwisit, Steven G. Murray, Hugh Garsden +95

Detection of the faint 21 cm line emission from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionisation will require not only exquisite control over instrumental calibration and systematics to a…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 4 cited

Bayesian estimation of cross-coupling and reflection systematics in 21cm array visibility data

Geoff G. Murphy, Philip Bull, Mario G. Santos +76

Observations with radio arrays that target the 21-cm signal originating from the early Universe suffer from a variety of systematic effects. An important class of these are reflect…

astro-ph.IM2023

Direct Optimal Mapping Image Power Spectrum and its Window Functions

Zhilei Xu, Honggeun Kim, Jacqueline N. Hewitt +79

The key to detecting neutral hydrogen during the epoch of reionization (EoR) is to separate the cosmological signal from the dominating foreground radiation. We developed direct op…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 6 cited

Search for the Epoch of Reionisation with HERA: Upper Limits on the Closure Phase Delay Power Spectrum

Pascal M. Keller, Bojan Nikolic, Nithyanandan Thyagarajan +80

Radio interferometers aiming to measure the power spectrum of the redshifted 21 cm line during the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR) need to achieve an unprecedented dynamic range to sep…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 4 cited

Bayesian jackknife tests with a small number of subsets: Application to HERA 21cm power spectrum upper limits

Michael J. Wilensky, Fraser Kennedy, Philip Bull +2

We present a Bayesian jackknife test for assessing the probability that a data set contains biased subsets, and, if so, which of the subsets are likely to be biased. The test can b…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 12 cited

Characterization Of Inpaint Residuals In Interferometric Measurements of the Epoch Of Reionization

Michael Pagano, Jing Liu, Adrian Liu +75

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is one of the systematic challenges preventing 21cm interferometric instruments from detecting the Epoch of Reionization. To mitigate the effects…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 184 cited

Improved Constraints on the 21 cm EoR Power Spectrum and the X-Ray Heating of the IGM with HERA Phase I Observations

The HERA Collaboration, Zara Abdurashidova, Tyrone Adams +92

We report the most sensitive upper limits to date on the 21 cm epoch of reionization power spectrum using 94 nights of observing with Phase I of the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 15 cited

Impact of instrument and data characteristics in the interferometric reconstruction of the 21 cm power spectrum

Adélie Gorce, Samskruthi Ganjam, Adrian Liu +75

Combining the visibilities measured by an interferometer to form a cosmological power spectrum is a complicated process. In a delay-based analysis, the mapping between instrumental…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 10 cited

Direct Optimal Mapping for 21cm Cosmology: A Demonstration with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array

Zhilei Xu, Jacqueline N. Hewitt, Kai-Feng Chen +78

Motivated by the desire for wide-field images with well-defined statistical properties for 21cm cosmology, we implement an optimal mapping pipeline that computes a maximum likeliho…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 15 cited

Prospects for kSZ-Galaxy Cross-Correlations during Reionization

Paul La Plante, Jackson Sipple, Adam Lidz

We explore a new approach for extracting reionization-era contributions to the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) effect. Our method utilizes the cross-power spectrum between filtere…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 200 cited

First Results from HERA Phase I: Upper Limits on the Epoch of Reionization 21 cm Power Spectrum

The HERA Collaboration, Zara Abdurashidova, James E. Aguirre +74

We report upper-limits on the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) 21 cm power spectrum at redshifts 7.9 and 10.4 with 18 nights of data ( hours of integration) from Phase I of the…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 165 cited

HERA Phase I Limits on the Cosmic 21-cm Signal: Constraints on Astrophysics and Cosmology During the Epoch of Reionization

The HERA Collaboration, Zara Abdurashidova, James E. Aguirre +81

Recently, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) collaboration has produced the experiment's first upper limits on the power spectrum of 21-cm fluctuations at z~8 and 10.…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 27 cited

Validation of the HERA Phase I Epoch of Reionization 21 cm Power Spectrum Software Pipeline

James E. Aguirre, Steven G. Murray, Robert Pascua +73

We describe the validation of the HERA Phase I software pipeline by a series of modular tests, building up to an end-to-end simulation. The philosophy of this approach is to valida…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 9 cited

Effects of model incompleteness on the drift-scan calibration of radio telescopes

Bharat K. Gehlot, Daniel C. Jacobs, Judd D. Bowman +76

Precision calibration poses challenges to experiments probing the redshifted 21-cm signal of neutral hydrogen from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization (z~30-6). In both inter…

astro-ph.IM2021

A Real Time Processing System for Big Data in Astronomy: Applications to HERA

Paul La Plante, Peter K. G. Williams, Matthew Kolopanis +72

As current- and next-generation astronomical instruments come online, they will generate an unprecedented deluge of data. Analyzing these data in real time presents unique conceptu…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 18 cited

Methods of Error Estimation for Delay Power Spectra in Cosmology

Jianrong Tan, Adrian Liu, Nicholas S. Kern +71

Precise measurements of the 21 cm power spectrum are crucial for understanding the physical processes of hydrogen reionization. Currently, this probe is being pursued by low-freque…

astro-ph.IM2020

Developing a Real Time Processing System for HERA

Paul La Plante, Peter K. G. Williams, Joshua S. Dillon

The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) is a radio telescope in the Karoo desert of South Africa endeavoring to observe Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization. When full…